I put on a free top and shorts. It really felt like he packed everything I owned. And as we made our way towards the town with our hands intertwined, I couldn't help but gaze at how amazing nature around us was like."I don't want to leave ever," I said."Done.” He shrugged. “But I have to see my mum," I quickly added."We can come here as often as you'd like." He smiled a little. "Knowing how busy your schedule is, I highly doubt that."He gave my hand a gentle squeeze. "I'll always be able to find time for you, and you know it.""I know.”“It's alright.""What are we going to eat?""Anything you're craving.""I'm not sure that I currently have a craving.""That's fine. When we get to town, I'm certain there's plenty of options."I nodded in response.We stopped in front of the first cabin shop that we saw, and the old man greeted us with full smiles. I felt some comfort knowing that he was a werewolf, and a part of me could tell that this was a werewolf-dominated town. It seemed
"Talie, are you here?" I heard Alpha call. I flinched out of my gaze that was on the old woman and stared at Alpha. He gave my hand a gentle squeeze, his lips pulling up into a small smile."Yeah, yeah. I was just appreciating the view around me," I said.I tried to look at her again, but she was gone. I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. I didn't want to worry Alpha by telling him about this piece of information. Our day was already going pretty well. "Can I use the bathroom?" I asked him."Sure, I'm sure there should be one around. Should I come with you?""No, no, no, I'm fine," I said sharply, trying to bring my voice down to avoid raising any suspicions. "I'm good, don't worry about it.""Alright," he said.I hurried out of the restaurant and looked around. I found her walking away. I caught up with her pace and held her shoulder and turned her around to look at me."Hey, we've met before."She seemed angered by my presence and frowned. "Excuse me, do I know you?""Yes, when I w
I knew I wasn't hallucinating. "You met me when I was in my Red Wolf form, right? Is that why you're following me?"She didn't say anything. She just stared at me blankly. "Answer me!" I was losing my patience. "What do you know?"Suddenly, she broke into a smirk and stared blankly at me again. "You're doomed. This is the end. There is no going back." I gripped a handful of her shirt. My patience was running out, and I could feel my wolf getting ready to take over. The fur was already sprouting out of my skin, and my clothes had replaced my fingernails by now.I've never felt so frustrated by someone in my entire life.I was ready to strike her face when she was adamant on giving me a response when I suddenly heard alpha’s voice call from around me.I returned my eye color to their original form and withdrew my hand from her clothes and tried to take control of my body once more.I let go of her, pushing her away from me. Alpha poked his head through the corner. "Talie." He furrowed
My head was pressed against alphas chest, sleeping peacefully when we suddenly heard the loud bang.We both flinched awake and stared at the door in shock. "What's that?" I asked him, trying to catch my breath.My heart was racing so fast from how loud and unexpected it was and how it disrupted my sleep.Alpha shrugged at me. "I have no idea. It's not my fault." He got out of bed."Wait. Be careful. I'll come with you." He shook his head, “I'll be fine.”"Just wait here," he assured me.I sat in bed, wondering what the heck was happening. I was still too asleep to be aware of my environment.We had gone straight to bed last night after we were done with baking, and everything had gone smoothly. I was still in thought when I heard Alpha yell.Suddenly, I jerked to my feet and hurried out of the room, going to inspect what the problem was, only for me to be greeted with a blast."Surprise," a call from many people around me.My eyes immediately lost all sleep, and I tried to understand
I was surprisingly not scared of her at all."What do you want?" I turned to look at her.The other girls that were here had somehow excused themselves.I Don't know how She managed to get in the crowd alpha had called, and ruin such a great surprise that he had made for me. But I was not about to run away from her again I wanted to face her own full square."You're not going to keep stalking me, are you? If you have business to deal with me, just go straight to the point, tell me what it is, and I'll do it.""Fine, but your alpha can return here. Let's get out of here if you want to talk," she said. I got out of the bathtub, wrapping a towel around my waist and glaring at her. "I don't trust you enough to leave with you, so if there's something you want to say, just say it right now.""I'm going to go straight to the point. My goal is to kill you. You killed my freaking son.""I don't even know what you're talking about," I said, but I knew deep down that she was probably right.Sh
I was not even able to process the entire ordeal when I felt the red wolf taking over me again.Almost immediately, I stood upright and just concentrated on her hands around my neck, taking over the woman's mind, able to get her hand away from my neck. I was fighting for my body at this point.She put her hands around her neck On the Red Wolf's control, I knew that I was going to kill her if I didn't stop now.I tried my hardest to be aware of my surroundings.I closed my eyes and peeled away from her. I immediately decided to run before the red wolf took control again. I could feel her taking over my body once more. I continued to run until I was sure that I was alone."What do you want from me? Why do you keep coming back? I thought you were gone forever. Thought you were gone for good. Riggs took you. I know he did. I remember so why have you come back?" It felt like a deep internal battle with myself the whole time. "Talie, where did you go?” I could hear Alpha's voice in the min
All of a sudden, I could smell alpha bearing me, the red wolf sensed it too because she immediately vanished. “Talie, what are you doing?” Alpha sounded genuinely confused. “I was so worried when you shut the link out.”I decided that I had enough of these. This was something I needed to figure out on my own. I got to my feet and frowned, “I’m sorry alpha but we need to head back to the pack house.”Alpha stared at me, evidently confused. “What?!”“I can’t explain it now but there’s something I have to deal with.”“Talie, I knew it this whole time,” he held my shoulders tight, “I could tell something was wrong, whatever it is you have to tell me.”“No, I’m sorry,” I couldn’t keep his gaze, “but this is something I have to fix in my own. I was so done with not having the choice to be happy. “Even after all the surprise I set up?” I could hear the sadness in his voice and it genuinely broke my heart. “I’m so sorry,” I sighed. He wrapped his arms around me tightly, “I trust you, bu
"Talie, do you need help with anything? I have to unravel the gifts and put them inside the house with Jake. You can go ahead and wait inside, and then we can talk."Alpha said and proceeded to do just as he had told me."I want to take a quick run around the place to clear my mind. I'll see you later," the red wolf said, taking over my mind completely.Alpha nodded, he had an emotion in his eyes, but I could not explain what it was. He held my wrist to stop me from moving. He pulled me closer to him, holding my neck, and then he kissed my forehead gently. "I'll see you soon, okay? I love you so much.""I love you too." The Red Wolf knew very well how to adopt my mannerisms. She turned around to leave. I wished I could yell the way I wanted to. Internally, I was going crazy, screaming at him, to please notice that I was not myself. But then I brought this upon me because I chose not to explain things to him. I just wanted to deal with it on my own.The red wolf continued to walk towar
Andrea began to walk out of the pack house, and I trailed along behind her, trying my best not to be seen.I watched as She scurried past bushes, and the moment she was getting further away from the pack house, she began to pick up her pace.As if she sensed that someone was following her, so it was hard to keep up with her because it was still a little bit dark. it was barely seven in the morning, and the sun had still not risen. I tried to dodge all the branches, tall grass,as I made my way after her.She stopped in front of a small shack and stepped in. I watched from afar, hidden from any view. Why else would she be in a small shop with my alpha? I swallowed a lump that grew in my throat. It better not be what I was thinking It was.I opened the door slowly. It was dark. "Hello," I called into the darkness. All of a sudden, all the lights flickered on, and I heard a huge confetti sound.I put my hands over my ears, flinching from the fear that came with it. I looked around and saw
I headed back to the pack house all by myself and decided to think nothing of it.I hoped that if Andrea would come back to me and explain the situation, maybe I wouldn't have to be so worried. I stayed in the living room, pacing back and forth and waiting for her to show up. When she began to not, I decided to engage myself in something else, I went back to the office and decided to look through the papers that I wasn't done with. After an hour had passed, I left the office and saw Andrea walking into the pack house."Hey," I said. "I thought You were going to be at Ava's place.""Yeah," i replied. "Turned out that she wasn't home, so I came to the pack almost immediately, and you weren't here. I thought we could have hung out and watched some movies together. Where did you go?""I just had to quickly deal with something." I closed my eyes, started mumbling under my breath, and internally hoped that she should confess and say that she was. But she didn't. I nodded at l her. “Oka
Three months laterAndrea walked into the office where I was busy looking through the paperwork for Alpha so that he wouldn't have to do it so much. I looked up at her and broke into a smile. "If it is not my favorite friend," I said. She smiled back at me, a smile creeping up her lips. She folded her arms across her chest. "What about your dad?”"He's been at your mom's place, like at this point is tiring me out," she chuckled. "Like if you guys want to be together, just say that's something. Why are you wasting our time? Like bro, my younger brothers have been asking me and I have no idea what to tell them.”“Really.” “Yeah.""So I'm going over there to call him back home. I hope he remembers that he has children," I closed the book in front of me. "Well then I'm coming with you because I really want to see my mum too. I have a few things I want to discuss with her.""Okay then, no problem," she said.As we walked to my mom's place, hand in hand, she interlocked her hands with m
I woke up the next morning to snuggly kisses from Alpha. I said in his sleepy voice. “Shouldn't you still be resting after everything that has happened?" He smiled at me. "Why? When I have everything I need here? Get ready. We're going out today." That got me to open my eyes. "Where are we going?"I raised my eyebrow at him. "You just have to find out, my love.”“then you shouldn't have told me. You know how curious I can get." "It's no big deal," he chuckled. "I'm just pulling your leg. I actually just want us to go out and have fun together. Do you know the entire time I was in the middle of the war? The only thing I was thinking about was you. And if you were doing fine, I swear you've taken full control of my mind and body at this point." I couldn't help but laugh at him. "I got my feet all right, I’ll get dressed!"Alpha and I wore matching clothes. I wore a white crop top and jean shorts. He wore a white tank top and jean shorts. He put his hair in a bun, just how I liked
Immediately, he fell forward in my hand. I began to scream, panicking in fear. I tried to balance him on the floor.He was too heavy for me to lift by myself. "Mum," I cried, hoping for whoever was around to come in.My mum immediately ran inside, and surprisingly, Carl tagged along with her. "What's wrong?" "I don't know, he suddenly lost balance.” I cried.My mom immediately tried to check for his pulse. "What's wrong with him? Why is he not breathing?" I asked.She pointed at the floor. "Don't worry, I will fix things. Just get the pack physician," she said. I jerked to my feet, going to do as instructed, immediately wiping my tears with the back of my hand In panic, I was so lost and confused."What happened?!”“I don't understand," I told Andrea as she raced by my side, trying to catch up with me. "Where are you going?""I don't know," I raised my voice after, “I’m clearly as confused as you as you can see, I just want Alpha to be fine." I continued to cry. She didn't say an
We got to Ava's place, and she was happy to see me at the door. She looked confused when she saw Andrea and stared at me, waiting for some sort of explanation."Oh yeah, this is Andrea. She's a new pack member.”“She doesn't smell like she's a part of our pack." She raised an eyebrow."Yeah, that is why I said she's a new pack member.""Ohh, it's nice to see you. What brings you guys here?" Then she realized that the whole thing with Alpha had happened, and then she raised her eyebrows at me. "Oh my goodness, that must be so insensitive of me to ask. I know that Alpha has gone off to war. I can't even imagine how you are dealing with things right now." She tugged my hand and pulled me into the room. "Come on, settle in."Andrea looked around Ava's place. "This is a nice place you've got. And yeah, she did want to come here to get his mind off things because she's been so worried, like Alpha is going to lose the battle or something." Andrea rolled her eyes.I didn't understand why she
I assisted Alpha to pack his things that he would need for the war, and when it was time for him to leave, I found myself sitting on the bed, burying my face in my hands and crying.He hurried to my side and crouched in front of me, he wiped my tears off with the pad of his thumb. In my seated position, I threw my arms around him and wailed against his shoulder."Why are you crying so much?""I don't want anything to happen to you."He pulled away from my embrace. "I just assured you that I'd be fine. Just trust me, okay?"I nodded at his words. Even though I found myself not believing him, it didn't seem like a reality until I saw him and the rest of the warriors with his bag slung over his shoulder as he prepared to leave the pack for war.I held my chest tightly. There is no way anyone could defeat my Alpha. He was the best. I knew it, but I didn't know why I was so scared. Things were finally going fine . The last thing I wanted was for it to be jinxed.I wanted to find my mum alm
At first, I was confused. Then I turned to look at Alpha; he shook his head. 'I'm sorry, I can't do that.'She immediately stepped forward, going on her knees and holding his feet. 'Please, you have to take us in. Look, that's my youngest brother, and he's really sick.' She pointed at the child in her father's hands. 'If we don't find shelter now, I don't think he can make it. Please, I beg you, we will do anything you ask us to do. I can sense that you're the alpha of the pack, please.'Seeing alphas reluctance she added, 'My dad himself was a trained warrior before everything came crashing down. It would be very helpful to the pack's growth. Don't deny us access, and I'm begging you with everything.'she began to shed tears. She was looking like she was about my age, and I felt the pain. When I saw her dad's face, it reminded me of my mum and how desperate she was the first time we left.I turned to Alpha, tugging his shirt. ‘please, just take them in. I feel like there is enough
The next morning, when we woke up, I rolled into Alpha's arms."Hey, did you sleep very well?" I asked him. He nodded. "Yeah, I did. Especially when you are here by my side.” “So, what do you want to have for breakfast? I don't know. I want to have you. It's you." "Stop. Be for real?" I chuckled. I hid my laughter behind my hand."I don't know. I'm not really hungry. I just want us to eat.""Are you ready to leave for the pack house?""Yeah, but we can't go unless we see Shayla first. I need to say my proper goodbye before I disappear. I don't know when I'm going to see her again, so let's not just rush to leave, right?""Okay?" He nodded and kissed my forehead."Goodness, I can't imagine the amount of work that I have to go back home to, but it's fine. We'll just settle in just as quickly as we left." I pursed my lips and nodded at him."Alright, I'll go and find something for us to eat. I should go see Shayla.""I really want to know how she’s settling in. You can hang out with J